A new study finds four factors that may make it more likely for some people to experience successful weight loss from using ...

More information: May-Yun Wang et al, Downregulation of the kidney glucagon receptor, essential for renal function and systemic homeostasis, contributes to chronic kidney disease, Cell Metabolism ...

Understanding glucagon: The counterpart to insulin Glucagon is a peptide hormone secreted primarily from the alpha cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans.

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...

Mahvash disease is an exceedingly rare genetic disorder of glucagon signaling characterized by hyperglucagonemia, hyperaminoacidemia, and pancreatic α-cell hyperplasia. Although there is no known ...

Stimulating a receptor in adipocytes enhanced energy expenditure and caused sustained weight loss in mice, offering targets to treat obesity and metabolic diseases.

Individualized ocular characteristics should be considered before starting GLP-1 RA therapies for weight loss and diabetes ...

Glucagon is a pancreatic hormone that elevates blood glucose levels. Notably, testing a glucagon receptor blocker on a pre-clinical model of HFpEF resulted in significantly improved overall heart ...

Many individuals are told that managing type 2 diabetes is simply a matter of controlling blood sugar. As long as glucos ...

A new study led by Ananda Basu, M.D., used novel non-radioactive, stable glucagon tracers for the first time to characterize glucagon metabolism in humans with and without Type 1 diabetes, providing ...